Philosopher

Hans Vaihinger

Overview

Hans Vaihinger (; German: [ˈhans ˈfaɪ.ɪŋɐ]; September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of 'As if'), published in 1911 although its statement of basic principles had been written more than thirty years earlier.

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Philosophers who discussed Hans Vaihinger

• Hans Kelsen
• Oswald Spengler
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• Christoph von Sigwart

Ideas Hans Vaihinger discusses

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• Fictionalism
• Logical positivism
• Hermann Lotze
• University of Tübingen
• Skepticism
• Friedrich Albert Lange
• Tübingen
• Humboldt University of Berlin
• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Critique of Pure Reason
• Jeremy Bentham
• H. L. Mencken
• Eduard von Hartmann
• Alfred Adler
• Electron

Place in the tradition

Part of Romanian philosophy.

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